Introduction FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot use the Unix trademark, it is a direct descendant of...

Introduction Secure Shell, or SSH, is a cryptographic (encrypted) network protocol for initiating text-based shell sessions on remote machines in a secure way. This allows a user to run commands on a machine’s command pro...

Install Mate desktop in FreeBSD 10.1 FreeBSD is fully text mode system, however some times new users might want to use GUI desktop environment. This tutorial will help you to install Mate Desktop in Freebsd 10.1. Here is my tes...

Introduction BSD was originally derived from UNIX and currently, there are various number of Unix-like operating systems descended from the BSD. While, FreeBSD is the most widely used open source Berkeley Software Distribution ...

FreeBSD an operating system with focus on performance, networking, and storage combines with ease of system administration and comprehensive documentation to realize the full potential of any computer. The FreeBSD Release Engin...

In this short tutorial, let us see how to add pkg management tool and install packages on FreeBSD 10. Check and Download pkg management tool root@Freebsd10:~ # pkg -vv The package management tool is not yet installed on you...

This RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA4 and -RC1 include: – fix to a regression in bsdinstall(8...

I will not give a definition of Samba because every Unix/Linux Administrator should know about it. I will skip directly to show you an easy step-by-step how-to article to setup your FreeBSD Samba server. My server root@FreeBSD-...

I was performing some tests in FreeBSD 9.1. The KDE desktop was too small and I want to show you how I have installed the Guest Additions to get full-screen mode. Let’s view my situation. root@FreeBSD-unixmen:/root # unam...

My name is Jacob Graham and I am a Junior Systems Administrator in Victoria, Canada. This will be my first writing for Unixmen and I hope that everybody enjoys it as much as I enjoy writing it for you. Today I will be talking a...